Set the I/O-scheduling class, priority and niceness to relaxed values when launching a process.
This was originally a fork of ionice from util-linux.
Running supernice is the equivalent of running both ionice -c3 and nice -n20.
This can be useful to prevent processes from hogging the CPU and the I/O capabilities of a system, with a command that is extremely easy to remember.
If you have ever watched the mouse cursor freeze when compiling a large project, this utility is for you.
supernice make
- Linux
make- A working C compiler, like
gcc
Build
make
Install (use sudo, doas or run as root):
sudo make install
The original source code of ionice is dual-licenced under either GPL2:
Copyright (C) 2004 Jens Axboe <jens@axboe.dk>
Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
Or under No copyright is claimed. This code is in the public domain; do with it what you wish:
Copyright (C) 2010 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Copyright (C) 2010 Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
No copyright is claimed. This code is in the public domain; do with it what you wish.
I wish to relicense all code under these terms as GPL2.
The changes made in 2021 and beyond are:
Copyright (C) 2021-2023 Alexander F. Rødseth <xyproto@archlinux.org>
Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
The entire code of supernice is released under GPL2.
The full license text is in the COPYING file.
- Version: 1.0.0
- License: GPL2